Key aspects of comfort : management of pain fatigue and nausea

Front Matter....Pages i-xix Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Patient Comfort: From Research to Practice....Pages 3-7 Key Aspects of Comfort....Pages 8-22 Front Matter....Pages 23-23 Relieving Pain: The Current Bases for Practice....Pages 25-31 Do Preterm Infants Show Behavioral Responses to Painful Procedures?....Pages 35-45 Vocal Measures of Infant Pain....Pages 46-51 Acute Pain Behavior in Infants and Toddlers....Pages 52-59 Children’s Words for Pain....Pages 60-65 The Oucher: A Pain Intensity Scale for Children....Pages 65-71 The Relationship Between Assessment and Pharmacologic Intervention for Pain in Children....Pages 72-79 Use of Patient-Controlled Analgesia by Children....Pages 80-86 The Effectiveness of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) with Children Experiencing Cancer Pain....Pages 87-100 The Effect of Musical Distraction on Pain in Hospitalized School-aged Children....Pages 101-104 Approaches to Pain in Infants and Children: A Discussion....Pages 105-116 Pain Control Behaviors of Patients with Cancer....Pages 119-126 The Accuracy of Nurses’ and Doctors’ Perceptions of Patient Pain....Pages 127-134 The Use of Patient-Controlled Analgesia for Burn Pain....Pages 135-140 The Effects of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) on Postoperative Patients’ Pain and Narcotic Use....Pages 140-145 The Effectiveness of Biofeedback in Relieving Childbirth Pain....Pages 145-150 The Effectiveness of Relaxation in Relieving Pain of Women with Rheumatoid Arthritis....Pages 150-154 The Effect of Relaxation Training on Surgical Patients’ Anxiety and Pain....Pages 155-160 Front Matter....Pages 23-23 The Effects of Self-Guided Imagery and Other-Guided Imagery on Chronic Low Back Pain....Pages 160-165 The Effect of Music on Adult Postoperative Patients’ Pain During a Nursing Procedure....Pages 166-172 Intervening with Adults in Pain: A Discussion....Pages 173-184 Front Matter....Pages 185-185 Fatigue: Current Bases for Practice....Pages 187-198 The Development of an Instrument to Measure the Subjective Dimension of Fatigue....Pages 199-208 Fatigue in Patients with Catastrophic Illness....Pages 208-216 Fatigue in End-Stage Renal Disease Patients....Pages 217-224 Fatigue in Women Receiving Chemotherapy for Ovarian Cancer....Pages 224-228 Chronic Fatigue: Directions for Research and Practice....Pages 229-240 Front Matter....Pages 241-241 Management of Nausea: Current Bases for Practice....Pages 243-248 Postchemotherapy Nausea and Vomiting....Pages 248-258 Nausea and Vomiting in Pregnancy....Pages 259-266 The Effectiveness of Self-Care Actions in Reducing “Morning Sickness”....Pages 267-272 Relieving Nausea: A Discussion....Pages 272-278 Front Matter....Pages 279-279 Perceptions of Comfort by the Chronically Ill Hospitalized Elderly....Pages 281-289 Comforting the Child in Pain....Pages 290-298 Fatigue, Pain, Depression, and Sleep Disturbance in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients....Pages 299-302 The Effects of Home Care on Patients’ Symptoms, Hospitalizations, and Complications....Pages 303-312 Patient Comfort: The Nurse’s Imperative....Pages 312-317 Front Matter....Pages 319-319 Strategies for Using Research in Practice....Pages 321-332 Back Matter....Pages 333-341 Maintenance of patient comfort is at the very core of nursing care. This book aims to distill the key research on patient comfort in a jargon-free format and offers guidance to those working with pain, fatigue and nausea in adults and children.